Category: Between the Lines – Blogs
BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR GOOD BIBLE STUDY
This is usually called the Inductive Method of bible Study. I did not create it and it is not new. This will help to direct your notes in your notebook as you consider your passage. READ the passage once the passage again – aloud ESTABLISH THE CONTEXT Consider and Understand the passage in the CONTEXT of…
Every Time I See It
Every morning, going to work, I pass a very large cemetery in Atlanta. There on the sloping hill sit hundreds of tombstones, all giving honor to the person who was laid to rest there. I think about all of these people. Who were they, what were their lives like? I know that some were celebrities,…
Self-Control
In the bible, self-control is always presented and praised as righteous and a desired trait. Its absence is listed among the unrighteous traits of men in the “last days” (2 Tim. 3:1,3). In 2 Peter 1:6, Peter admonishes us to add self-control to knowledge. The Greek word is egkrateia1 which comes from egkrates, and it…